Diane Meier

The New York Times

Thursday, April 15, 2010

At 48, Joy Harkness, a professor at Columbia, still doesn’t have the life she imagined. The one in which she “would become that self-assured woman who knew where the important people lunched,” a woman who “Susan Sontag would choose to meet for an early supper and a movie we might then hack to pieces.” So when she is recruited by Amherst College, she puts her apartment on the market, packs her things and moves north. There, installed in a wreck of a Victorian, she discovers that the life she’s been waiting for might have a different shape altogether.
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